Rocket Leagues tournament update arrives next week

Rocket League’s tournament update arrives next week, and while it shouldn’t (thankfully) have any impact on the ongoing RLCS season it will bring some improvements across the PC and console games. Switch owners will see a bump in resolution and the option to Rocket League Items play in performance or quality mode, performance sacrificing resolution to run at a smooth 60fps while quality offering a better looking but 30fps experience. Video capture will also be enabled for Switch players. Steps are also being taken to reduce toxicity in the Rocket League community, with chat ban tools being put in place that both automatically identify slurs and inappropriate language and act on player reports. Despite in-jokes the Rocket League scene hasn’t been too bad for toxicity beyond a whole lot of sarcastic use of the quick chat functions and the occasional Twitter or Discord beef, but for a game with such appeal to kids it is good to see a more regulated chat. Now if only they could do the same to Twitch chat (!rewards). The final quality-of-life update coming on April 3 is more detailed connection issues reporting. Gone is the infamous “red triangle of death”, replaced with individual indicators for packet loss, high latency, latency variation and general server side issues. While many people just want the servers fixed entirely, this will at the least help people identify what is a genuine server issue and what may be a connection problem. That’s enough about updates, let’s get into the week’s RLCS action.